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The Democrats' coup of Joe Biden for Kamala Harris is officially complete, and the media would have you believe it never even happened. After pretending to be real journalists for a month and holding the Biden regime accountable, the left-wing corporate media has quickly returned to its preferred form—that of a regime apologist. Apparently, we are reliably informed, Kamala Harris is actually the greatest thing since sliced bread. Hold aside her horrific approval and favorability ratings, her catastrophic 2020 presidential run, her abominable tenure as vice president, and the myriad crazy far-left policy positions she has taken over the course of her career. In essence: "Don't believe your own lying eyes and ears, you racist sexist bigot transphobe!" But this elaborate gaslighting operation from the Democrat-media complex is simply not going to work. The American people are far too smart for that.

I discussed all this and more in my recent syndicated column and in two recent episodes of "The Josh Hammer Show." We have put out a number of new episodes since our last newsletter, so make sure to subscribe and keep up if you are not already doing so. You can listen to all episodes of "The Josh Hammer Show" at the Newsweek website or on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. (The show is also on the radio in multiple markets, and we are looking to expand our presence on terrestrial airwaves!)

In other major news, on Monday Joe Biden and Kamala Harris both came out in favor of various "reforms" to the U.S. Supreme Court—including new term limits for the justices and an enforceable "ethics" code, by which Democrats seem to mean some sort of new mandatory exogenous check on when justices must recuse from a given "case" or "controversy" before their court. There are numerous problems here. First, neither of these "half-packing" schemes can be accomplished via simple congressional statute; both would require a constitutional amendment. Second, these "reforms" would obviously upend our well-calibrated constitutional order, effectively subjugating the judiciary to not merely "least dangerous" branch status (per Alexander Hamilton in The Federalist No. 78), but to outright "belittled and inferior" branch status. This is, in short, a Joe Biden-Kamala Harris declaration of war on the U.S. Supreme Court.

I explained this latest horrific—and deeply anti-"democratic"—Democratic assault on the U.S. Supreme Court in this morning's new episode of "The Josh Hammer Show."

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The Bloodless Coup of Joe Biden Will Not Work Out Well for Democrats

The Democratic Party ruling class's bloodless coup of their own democratically elected presidential nominee, who also happens to be the nominal sitting president of the United States, is one of the most astonishing political developments of my lifetime. Joe Biden, though clearly physically and mentally impaired, has sought the presidency for quite literally longer than I have been alive. Biden had been defiant ever since the June 27 presidential debate debacle that he was not going anywhere, despite overwhelming pressure from party elites and sycophantic media lapdogs demanding he do precisely that. He has a Lady Macbeth-like wife who craves power, and he has a felonious son in desperate need of a presidential pardon.

Yet the coup succeeded. Biden became the first incumbent president to not seek re-election after his first term since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968. Biden made the much-anticipated announcement not with a solemn Oval Office address—that came three days later, and he didn't even explain his decision. Rather, he issued a bedridden tweet—from a personal, not even official, account. It's the equivalent of divorcing your wife over text message. As if that weren't crazy enough, the announcement came smack in the middle of a five-day period in which Biden was not publicly seen, and during which he apparently experienced an unspecified medical emergency. Suspicious much?

The Democrats' decision to coup their own president is a curious one, on the political merits.

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